The Industrial Revolution


The following resources will help you in your exploration of the Industrial Revolution.

 Print Resources

The Industrial Revolution - Milestones in Business History (330.941 HOR)
This volume will address how the Industrial Revolution played out in Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world, emphasizing the role of the government in both promoting and regulating commerce. It will clarify the important distinctions between the original Industrial Revolution and the second Industrial Revolution (approximately 1850 to the early 20th century), which was characterized by accelerating growth, brought about the introduction of the internal combustion engine, electric power, and other technological and managerial developments.		  
   
Ideas That Changed the World - The Industrial Revolution (909.81 WIL)
This book charts the extraordinary progress of humanity and explores how people improved the ways they did things in the past, and investigates how they came up with the amazing new ideas and inventions that changed the world during the Industrial Revolution.
 
The Industrial Revolution (330.9 ROS)
Charts the development of power-driven machinery, and also looks at the effects-both good and bad-on how people  lived and worked during the Industrial Revolution.  Brings history to life from the eyes of a		  

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Turning Point in World History  - The Industrial Revolution (330.9 IND)
The development of industrialization in the mid-1700s sparked a surge in technology that changed the world. Chapters in this anthology discuss the great inventions of the industrial revolution and their unprecedented effects -- both beneficial and harmful -- on society.

 

 Online Databases

 

 History Resource Center: U.S.
Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
 

The Hartford Courant

   Proquest Hartford Current (1764-1922)
Search the earliest years of the Courant for articles and images that relate Connecticut and national history.

 

 Internet Sites

General McCord Museum's Victorian manners game: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0/

19th Century Cultural History: http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury1800.htm

Industrial Revolution - Timeline: http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html

Learning Curve - Victorian Britain: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/

The Story of My Cotton Dress: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/cottondress.cfm

Victorian Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/?site=history_victorianlj_earning
 
The Arts and Culture American Cultural History - The 19th Century: http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury1800.htm

BBC - The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution: www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/enlightenment/features_enlightenment_industry.shtml

The Impact of the Industrial Revolution (arts, government, etc.): http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/impact.html

Industrial Revolution - Internet Modern History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/
 
Child Labor Child Labor (websites & first hand accounts): http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

Child Labor (textile mill): http://www.woonsocket.org/slaterchildlabor.html

The History Place - Child Labor in America: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

Library of Congress - Child Labor: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm032.html

Mr. Coal's Story: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/mrcoal.cfm
 
Education

Nineteenth Century Education: www.chesapeake.edu/library/EDU_101/eduhist_19thC.asp

Nineteenth Century Teaching Methodology: www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/TEACHING.htm

State Intervention and Nineteenth Century Education: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/educn/educn003.pdf
 
Famous People Age of Invention - Pioneers of the Machine Shop: http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/machine.htm

Biographies of the Industrial Revolution: http://www.42explore2.com/industrial2.htm

The Inventors of the Industrial Revolution: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Inventors.htm

Top 10 Significant Industrial Revolution Inventors: http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/tp/inventors.htm
 
Social / Living Conditions The Impact of the Industrial Revolution: http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/impact.html

The Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living: www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html

 
Science, Technology & Transportation Age of Invention - Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest: http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/toc.htm

18th Century Timeline - Technology, Science & Inventions: http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Eighteenth.htm

Industrial Revolution - Industries: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01419/industriestext.html
 
Working Conditions Industrial Revolution - Jobs: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01419/jobstext.html

Industrial Revolution - Working Conditions: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01419/industriestext.html
 


If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "Industrial Revolution", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites about the Industrial Revolution as opposed to all of the sites containing the word industrial plus all of the sites containing the word revolution.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about a the Industrial Revolution, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma, followed by a space and you other search term.  For instance; if I wanted to find out about the working conditions in factories during the Industrial Revolution,  I would enter the following:
     

     "working conditions", factories "industrial revolution"
     

  5. Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     
  6. Be sure to critically evaluate Internet sources.  UC Berkley Library's Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask is an excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the following areas:
  7. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on the Internet, online databases, or print material, you must cite every resource you used.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
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